System, method and program product for community review of documents
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDavid Grossman, Sean Martin, Louis Weitzman
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system, method and program product for providing for the review of documents by a community of interest having a computer accessible database of documents, a computer accessible database of annotations for recording annotations of selected documents in the database of documents, and a publication/subscription (Pub/Sub) infrastructure for publishing selected documents in the database of documents and annotations thereof to subscribers of the selected documents. A registration process registers members of the community of interest who have authority to view selected documents of the database of documents, to view and modify annotations of the documents through the Pub/Sub infrastructure.
Claims18
A system for providing for the review of documents by a community of interest comprising:
- a computer accessible database of documents;
- a computer accessible database of annotations for recording annotations of selected documents in said database of documents;
- and
- a publication/subscription (Pub/Sub) infrastructure for publishing selected documents in said database of documents and annotations thereof to subscribers of the selected documents.
A method for providing for the review of documents by a community of interest comprising:
- providing documents in a computer accessible database;
- providing annotations in a computer accessible database for recording annotations of selected documents in said database of documents;
- and
- publishing selected documents in said database of documents and annotations thereof to subscribers of the selected documents with a publication/subscription (Pub/Sub) infrastructure.
A program product usable with a system for providing for the review of documents by a community of interest, said program product comprising:
- a computer readable medium having recorded thereon computer readable program code performing the method comprising:
- providing documents in a computer accessible database;
- providing annotations in a computer accessible database for recording annotations of selected documents in said database of documents;
- and
- publishing selected documents in said database of documents and annotations thereof to subscribers of the selected documents with a publication/subscription (Pub/Sub) infrastructure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.